Straight To The Point

The greatest trick that our leaders have pulled when erroding our freedom is disguising it. This article describes exactly what is happening in the West and why we should stop it now. Even though you may not have been banned from flying, or arrested for a crime you haven't committed, it may only be a matter of time, as thousands of people already have. And the more insignificant the problem may seem, the easier it is for it to encroach on your world.

A few highlights:-

• Bush and his allies in Congress recently announced they would issue no information about the secret CIA "black site" prisons throughout the world, which are used to incarcerate people who have been seized off the street.
• Under Order 17, issued to regulate contractors in Iraq by the one-time US administrator in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, these contractors are immune from prosecution.
• A little-noticed new law has redefined activism such as animal rights protests as "terrorism".
• "Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that," asked the airline employee.
• a CIA contract worker who said in a closed blog that "waterboarding is torture" was stripped of the security clearance.
• The president has the power to call any US citizen an "enemy combatant".
• Even if you or I are American citizens, even if we turn out to be completely innocent of what he has accused us of doing, he has the power to have us seized as we are changing planes at Newark tomorrow, or have us taken with a knock on the door; ship you or me to a navy brig; and keep you or me in isolation, possibly for months, while awaiting trial.